Cash-less: CBN considers biometric system for ATM, PoS

The Central Bank of Nigeria is considering a biometric authentication system for transactions that will be carried out on Point of Sale Terminals and Automated Teller Machines.

The move is part of measures aimed at strengthening the payment system under the bank’s cash-less policy initiative.

The Governor of the CBN, Mr. Lamido Sanusi, revealed this on Tuesday in Abuja during the sensitisation of stakeholders on the cash-less Nigeria programme.

Sanusi said the biometric system became imperative in order to enable the bank effectively address safety of customers’ funds as well as avoid losses that might arise owing to compromise of Personal Identification Numbers.

He said if approved, the biometric authentication for PoS and ATMs would be implemented in 2015.

The governor said the central bank had taken steps to gain the confidence of ATM users by strengthening the payment system.

For instance, he said going by statistics, fraud incidences through ATMs and PoS had reduced by 90 per cent.

Sanusi said, “The CBN has taken a giant step to gain the confidence of ATM consumers following the circular enforcing migration from Magstripe type of debit card to chip and PIN type of debit card.

“Statistics show that this effort has reduced the fraud incidences by 90 per cent. Many customers are now embracing the use of electronic channels in their transactions because of near impossible efforts of would-be fraudsters in being able to clone debit cards to perpetrate fraud as it was the case during the pre-migration era.”

On Monday at about 11.30Pm my wife woke up with severe pains in her left eye and water was oozing out of it and she could not open it but when I put a drop of the anointed water in the eye the pains vanished immediately like a magic. We thank God and bless you Bishop Koleayo.
Yusuf, Lagos

Last week when i returned into the country,On my way home, i saw big signboards in almost all the junction of Gwarinpa estate with the bishop’s picture and the signboards reads: “Welcome to Gwarinpa estate, Home of peace!” I was wowed and impressed. so i asked my driver to stop and i copied the number on the board just for curiosity. i called the number that evening and i was shocked when Bishop said he would love to see me the next morning, i asked my wife about him and he said everyone knows him to be highly prophetic.
I went to his office the next day and behold, he started telling me of my secrets i have never in my life told any body. this is a man i have never met before. Bishop, you’re indeed highly prophetic.
Thanks for putting me on the right part.
Dr.Akoko.

My tipper was stolen two months ago from where it was packed. We & the police searched every nook & cranny of this country without getting any information.
I & my wife went to many prayer houses & prophets but we still couldn’t get it.
We rushed to see Prophet Solomon Koleayo when one of our church members told us about him & without us even saying anything, he asked me to pull off my shoes & bring my cell phone, I gave him the cell phone & he looked at the screen & said our tipper is some where in Kaduna.he gave us the name of the street & asked us to move to Kaduna immediately. We went to Kaduna with a police men where the Bishop mentioned & behold the tipper was there & has been re-sprayed to another colour.
i have met men of God but never seen such a human so spiritual and prophetic.Thank you Lord for using this prophet for us.

Bro.Amechi, Jahi-Abuja

I sent a text to Bishop Koleayo immediately i got his handbill in a petrol station last month.I couldn’t hear as i lost my hearing two years ago. i woke up one morning and found out i couldn’t hear again.
we did everything and went to different places to treat it without luck. when i saw the bishop’s handbill, something in my spirit told me that my solution has come. i have been seeing his billboards at all junctions in Gwarinpa and Abuja but haven’t bothered to see the address but was glad to have the handbill in my hand.
Bishop replied my text and he asked me to call him. i sent a text back to him that i cant call him because i lost my hearing and he sent another text instructing me authoritatively to call him. i had to do obey him and guess what, as soon as i called the prophet, he picked up and as soon as he said hello, my ears opened and i started hearing.
i never knew the miracle could happen just like that. people that heard of it from far and near started flying in to Abuja to see if it’s true.
Bishop Solomon Koleayo is just so wonderful

I attended Bishop Solomon Koleayo’s prophetic night vigil and he said we should take up anything and begin to flog our enemies. i was shocked and confused at first because i couldn’t imagine how someone would just be flogging the air and assuming you’re flogging your enemies. i saw it as child’s play but because of many things i have heard and read about the bishop’s miraculous works, i decided to join the congregation in doing it.
Do you know as i was doing it, my mother inlaw who came to visit us two weeks before then was at home screaming and crying that i was flogging her and that i should stop. i was in all-night meeting praying at the Island while she was at home in Surulere. she visited us as usual. she was suppose to stay for two days but she stayed for two weeks and wasn’t ready to go back to the east. i knew she hated me but i never knew she would go that far in being the one behind my predicament.
I was married for 7 years without a child. i get pregnant every year and suffers miscarriages.
before i got home in the morning after the night vigil, i came to meet people gathered in our house and when i asked what happened? they said my mother inlaw had died that night. when i went inside to see her dead body, there was marks of cane as if she was flogged to death physically.
i gave birth exactly 9 months after the night vigil.
Praise God.
Ogechi Nnamani, Lagos

When i heard about what God does with Bishop Koleayo in Abuja, I had to visit him because i needed serious prayers for protection because many attempts had been made on my life both spiritually and physically.Some of my political opponents wanted me
dead.
Few weeks after i visited Bishop Koleayo, i drove into my compound after the days work. As soon as i entered my bed room, i heard gun shot sounds inside my compound & before i could think of what was going on, i heard some men shouting in my sitting room, where is chief? where is chief? It then dawn on me that as i drove in, the men whom i latter discovered where assassins drove behind me, entered my compound after me & shot my security man at the gate six times and my driver who was also outside four times before entering my sitting room where they met my wife, kids & others living with me. They just asked everyone they met at the sitting room to lie down & was asking for me in particular. I had just stepped into the house & went to my bed room to freshen up when i heard the gun shot sounds outside.
I first thought they where armed robbers as it’s was becoming a usual thing around our area at that time but i was confused on what to do as i was hearing them shouting & asking after me.
I quickly opened my ward robe where i kept the anointed water & as i was anointing my forehead with it, two of the men kicked my bed room door open with riffles in their
hands, i was so afraid & confused that i fell on my bed thinking i had died but i was surprised & i am still surprise because i was on top of the bed
looking at the two hefty men carrying sophisticated weapons scattering my bed room in search for me. they opened my wardrobe & checked under my bed but didn’t see me that was on the bed looking at them. I was invisible to them. I could see them clearly but they didn’t see me.
That was how they left.
I have heard of miracles but i never knew it works this way.
Thank you so much Bishop.
Chief Efosa, Benin City.

When we heard of the Bishop, we decided to fly to Abuja to attend his prophetic services & also to see him because i needed a touch, deliverance & healing but couldn’t meet him one on one because he just drove to the venue of the meeting, preached & left. We were told he was rushing to the airport to catch a flight.
I was disappointed because three of us had to fly in from Warri but we couldn’t see him.
I was paralyzed. It started three nights after my wedding, i dreamt that a lady was cutting my legs with a cutlass & when i woke up that morning, i started feeling pains on my legs & couldn’t walk again. We went to hospitals both here in Nigeria & abroad but nothing could be done.
We even went to almost all the seasoned prophets in Nigeria but my case defiled them all.
I knew my case was spiritual because i kept seeing the lady in my dreams laughing at me & vowing to me that i will never walk again but i’ll die a mysrable death.
When Bishop came into the prophetic meeting, he just preached for few minutes, prophesied generally & asked all of us to raise up our bottled water so he could bless the water & because we hadn’t attended such service before, we didn’t come with water so my causine who came with me had to rush outside to buy a bottled water but she didn’t get bottled, so she bought sachet water & i raised up my pure water as the Bishop prayed.He finished praying & said we should drink it by 12 midnight same day & our problems are solved & he left.
I was surprised because i was expecting him to touch us. But he never layed hands on anyone except people where just falling under the anointing as he was singing worship, he didn’t touch the water. He just spoke & left.
Honestly, i wasn’t happy as we were flying back to Warri because i felt nothing had been done because other pastors i had visited in the past would shout & speak in tongues for hours but the Bishop didn’t do all that. He was so soft & calm.
To make my testimony short, i drank the water by 12 midnight reluctantly & i slept. It was like a dream when i woke up in the morning & i was calling at my causine to bring something for me.
She heard me but pretended she didn’t hear me because all of them were tired of me. I was a burden to everyone as they carry me everywhere including the toilet. I was angry & i felt like standing up to walk. I was surprised myself when i stood up & began to walk. My sister that was in the sitting room watching TV was shocked to see me walked to her.
Indeed, Bishop Solomon Koleayo is God’s angel.i will forever be grateful to you sir.
-Onome. Warri, Delta State-Nigeria

This is hardly the place for you to put this stuff. It is an eyesore here. Pls post with decorum. Ah!!!!

Ayinde

Post such as this are rather offensive and inappropriate, you should have made use of another platform, thanks

The Crier

Sanusi….you are rushing this eye closed country speedily to the mark of the beast. We do not need biometric authentication for ATM and PoS. people shd secure their cards, their online footprints, just like they secure their car and house keys.

Sleeping but miracle crazy Nigerians, Open your eyes.

Tope

Assume u re indispose. U can’t send someone else to make use of your ATM due to Biometric stuff of things. We don’t want it. There is other numerous things Nigeria need to grow their Economy than this.

mrshingles

sanusi use ur brain.Think

Agangan Christopher

I think that biometrics will improve the Cash-less system in the way of preconfrimation of the cusomer before any form of transaction is carried out thereby improving the security of the system. Nice idea CBN chief.

Okubena Adebowale

Sanusi should take it easy.Most of the banks have not fully deployed the Pos they bought.Many banks have made so much loss on this already.Nigerians have not learned the old one ,sanusi is already talking about another one.

Life is Good

The day we realise the level of illiteracy rocking this country and that more than 2/3 of the entire population is in that mess, we would know what to address first enroute achieving a sound banking system where we do things right and stop being copycats…

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